Power and Data Unit

See slide 10

http://site.ieee.org/rockriver...

Uh... not sure if serious.

Saying you are going to do something is evidence you are planning to do it. You looking for some better evidence than a confession?

http://theconversation.com/clo...

Nobody wants to lose a $300M spacecraft because a $0.14 transistor from Digikey blew up. Reliability in the mission environment is the #1 consideration. And very few companies have the know-how to harden their products. Itâ(TM)s not easy.

High cost of development + technical challenge + design trade-offs + low volumes = not much competition + lagging performance + high price

Do the CPUs need special features against single event upset, or can that all be handled externally?

Or those people can work on another project.

Foundries like TSMC need a way for customers to send their chip designs. That said, itâ(TM)s tough to imagine circumstances where their internal process recipes are required to be shared outside the confines of the fab, so they could be internally locked down.

Yeah, Aluminum etches fairly easily with a variety of acids.

I think Intersil still sells some old Harris parts.

Google is the only one not already blocked by the Great Firewall. China has no leverage on Twitter and FB. The only company we should be talking about here is Google.

Facebook and Twitter are already banned in China. There is no reason ($$$) for them to acquiesce to China.

Thatâ(TM)s because the police and gun-toting protestors were on the same side politically.

The Linux learning curve is too steep to be practical for most people. Unless you are an expert programmer, everything takes longer and is more frustrating in Linux, because it is not user friendly.

File under r/obvious

The trip will last five days according to TFA

Turns out heâ(TM)s only mostly dead, i.e. slightly alive